Code Lyoko Episode 138: Unsteady Alliance
Author: James the Lesser/The Bunnyman
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own These Characters! Moonscape Does!
A/N ALL PEOPLE WHO SAY I SPELLED XANA WRONG. READ MY OTHER STORIES, 53-134 PLUS THE OVA FIRST SO YOU KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!! Actually, I probably don't need this anymore since Xana is Xana…
A/N Ok, starting the series back up. I'll be putting the Code Xana Episodes up still but remember they happen after 119 and not 119X. Everything after 119X does not happen in the Code Xana world! This is just me not being able to stop writing about our favorite Lyoko Warriors!
S.S. and Odd had spent the past week almost joined at the hip, and the lips, and other places. Except for class Odd didn't even eat at the school and sometimes didn't even sleep there. Sanne and Jim had strictly enforced one rule and the two kids followed it, when they were at the Hermitage. Right now however they were on the roof of the Factory.
"My, my first memory when I stepped out of the Scanner was of when we were up here."
"I saw."
"What?"
"I, when I was in the other world, I, I got your hair from when we were up here."
"Wait, I, I remember, I thought I felt you pulling my hair but your hands were busy somewhere else. I guess you were pulling my hair." They laugh.
"Mmmm, I love you S.S." They kiss some more and do more while they were away from the Hermitage.
Back at the Hermitage Sanne sets out dinner for Jim, Samantha, and Aelita. Aelita had been uncomfortable with the news her mother gave her so Sanne was trying to get Aelita to spend more time with her and Jim. "Aelita how was school today?"
"Um, had math, that was easy. Then, gym." Aelita looks over at Jim. "That was fun. Then after lunch I had Italian."
"I saw you got an 87, good job Aelita I know you struggle with it." Sanne smiles at Aelita. Things were ok now but Sanne knew it was hard for Aelita to accept that Jim and her were together. Sanne knew Aelita didn't like Franz and wasn't really worried about Jim replacing him but for Aelita knowing that Jim and Sanne were dating, doing things, creped her out.
But for Xana he was not worried about family relations. He was not worried about spending time with someone he lost. He was planning his next attack.
"We should probably be going back to the Hermitage." S.S. and Odd are getting dressed as the sun sets.
"Yeah, um, S.S." She looks at Odd and he makes a funny face at her. S.S. laughs getting Odd to laugh. "That was fun."
"Yeah, I, was I better then Naomi?"
"You ask that every time S.S. and the answer will always be a million times better." Odd kisses her then helps her clasp her bra back on.
"I feel kind of bad about this though. Sanne opened her home to me and only gave me a couple of rules and here we are breaking them, again."
"She said we couldn't do things like this in the Hermitage." Odd motions around the roof of the Factory. "Does this look like the Hermitage?" Odd's goofy smile gets S.S. to laugh again.
"No." They start to climb down when they see a large orange blob move through the Factory then leave to cross the bridge. "How much do you want to bet that was a Xana monster?"
"Uh, I think he just sent a Guardian to Earth." After they climb down Odd gets his phone out and calls Jeremie. "Jeremie, we just saw a Guardian."
"What? Odd, wait." Jeremie closes his music. "What was that?"
"I'm at the Factory with S.S. and we just saw a Guardian!"
"Oh, but, the Super Scan, this is why I hate it when Sissi uses the Super Computer!" Jeremie was listening to music while working on the Super Scan that Sissi damaged when she activated the Tower. "I'll call the others but we won't know what Sector it is in."
"S.S. and I are already at the Factory maybe we could fix it."
"Odd the Super Scan and Mini Scan are damaged I don't need you damaging anything else." Jeremie and Odd hang up as Jeremie makes his calls.
Aelita and Samantha after dinner are talking in Samantha's room. Aelita sensed Samantha was depressed about something. "Samantha what's wrong?"
"Nothing munchkin. You're not mad at me are you?" Aelita gets a confused look on her face. "I knew about your mom and Jim but they asked me not to tell you. Sanne wanted to tell you herself when she was ready."
"Is that it?"
"Uh, yeah." It wasn't but Samantha didn't want to tell Aelita why she was really feeling down.
"No I'm not mad at you. I, I'm, it's still creepy to think about what they're doing." Aelita laughs nervously.
"Try listening to it." Aelita gets a weird look on her face. "They try to be quiet but you can still hear it." Samantha laughs as Aelita makes another face. "Your mom's a grown woman I don't blame her. What about you and Jeremie?"
"I, uh, we've never done anything like that, not even close." Aelita blushes. "Can we change the subject?"
"Fine, how has…" Aelita's phone rings.
"Hold on." Aelita gets her phone out. "SOS XANA." Aelita answers her phone. "Jeremie I'm at the Hermitage we're on our way."
"Be careful Odd says it is a Guardian that Xana sent to Earth."
"A Guardian? Oh, um, be careful to Jeremie. I, just be careful."
"I will if you will." They hang up.
"Samantha we have to go to the Factory." Samantha nods and they leave Samantha's room and get the adults. The four then run for to the sewer entrance and take it to the Factory.
"Um, I'll be there, just give me a minute." Yumi was at home making dinner. Her parents were at some company party and she had to make dinner for her little brother. "Hiroki!"
"What?" Hiroki is playing Zombie Blasters 3000.
"One, one of my friends, they were hurt. I, I need to go. I'll just set this on low you can eat it whenever you want." Yumi runs out of the house and heads for the Factory.
Sissi and Ulrich are in the woods. "An attack? Hmmm, I wonder who will be the target." Sissi watches and sees Jeremie open the sewer entrance and take it down to the sewers to go to the Factory.
"Sissi we should help them."
"They're still ungrateful for what I did for them." Sissi had help bring S.S. back yet the rest of the gang didn't trust her. "We can't fight Xana alone and they won't be able to fight him alone either. We should go to the Factory at least. If we stop the attack from doing any damage then there won't be a return to make Xana stronger." Sissi and Ulrich turn into black mists and fly to a street to take a street light to the Factory. When they come out and form into themselves they see an orange blob on the bridge.
"A Guardian. Sissi we have to be careful."
"Careful? I'll destroy it for them." Sissi morphs into Lyoko Sissi and gets her axe out.
"Sissi those things are too dangerous!" Sissi had never met a Guardian, Ulrich had. What would happen on Earth? Ulrich didn't want to find out but Sissi was determined to destroy this monster of Xana's.
"Die!" Sissi flies down and swings her axe using energy to power her attack doing nothing! She swings again and her axe slices through but the Guardian heals immediately. "You just sit there, I will destroy you, I can destroy you!" Sissi swings again and again using more energy. She ignores the feeling of the corruption creeping into her brain. She continues swinging as her eyes start to get blurry then change when the Eye of Xana appears. Her energy spreads and attacks the Guardian directly but does nothing.
"Sissi stop it!" Ulrich morphs to Lyoko Ulrich and flies down and grabs Sissi around the waist. He pulls her away from the Guardian. Sissi struggles. The corruption had swallowed her brain stem and was infecting the rest of her brain. "Sissi you can't fight it!" Sissi bites his arm but it isn't enough to make Ulrich drop her. He flies up into the Factory into the rafters away from the Guardian. "Sissi stop it, come one, calm down." Ulrich sees the back of her neck is black and purple. The corruption was showing through her skin it was so bad. Ulrich leans his head of her shoulder. "Sissi don't let it get you."
"I'll kill it! Let me go!" Sissi struggles and starts to break free. Ulrich grabs her arm before she can get away and pulls her back to him. Her eyes have the Symbol of Xana in them.
"Sissi, damn, I don't want to do this." Ulrich and Sissi had found two things that fought the corruption. Time and a sign of love. Sissi spits at Ulrich and tries to slam her head into his. "I hate this." Ulrich closes his eyes and kisses Sissi. Immediately he feels her relax in his arms. When he pulls away the Symbol of Xana is gone.
"Thank you Ulrich." Sissi feels the corruption leave her brain and go down her spine. "What happened?" Sissi looks back and sees the Guardian is still there. "I couldn't hurt it?"
"No and whatever it is planning can't be good." Sissi and Ulrich watch and wait to see what it does.
Samantha, Aelita, Jim, and Sanne get to the Factory and see the orange blob that is a Guardian. "Aelita, Sanne, you're the ones who can deactivate a Tower so stay back." Jim and Samantha get in front of the mother daughter duo.
"Hey!" Ulrich flies through the upper wall of the Factory like a ghost. "Sissi and I can get you to the Control Room."
"Yeah right why didn't you destroy the orange blob?" Jim doesn't trust Sissi or Ulrich. The only Lyoko Warriors who did were Odd and S.S. after what Sissi and Ulrich had done to bring the two back together.
"I tried and I couldn't."
"You guys know it is nearly impossible to destroy one of those things." Ulrich sends an energy bolt at the Guardian and the energy is absorbed. "See?"
"Let us pixelize you and fly you to the Control Room. Sissi flies out and stops next to Ulrich.
"No way we can't trust you." Samantha had been torn limb from limb by Sissi.
"Odd and S.S. do."
"Yeah, we don't even know if that's the real S.S. We don't even know if that's the real Odd. He just appeared from nothing." Sanne remembers that moment. Hearing Odd's scream as his foot was cut off by something and all he cared about was some hair he said was S.S.'s.
"No!" Ulrich sees the Guardian ripple then move and attack the four. He flies down knocks Sanne out of the way. The Guardian captures Samantha, Aelita, and Jim then flies away. "Sanne are you ok?"
"Get off of me Ulrich." Sanne pushes Ulrich and he does. "Aelita, no, bring her back!" Sanne watches as the Guardian flies farther and farther away.
"You have to get to Lyoko. Deactivate the Tower while Sissi and I get the others. We'll call you and tell you if a return is needed or not."
"Shut up Ulrich." Sanne walks past Ulrich and Sissi and heads for the elevator.
"Sissi, we have to get them back. Xana is to powerful for us to defeat as it is if he gets any stronger…" He might be able to kill them.
"Then let's fly Ulrich." Sissi and Ulrich break into black mists to reduce the use of energy and fly after the Guardian as Yumi gets to the Factory.
Sanne, S.S., and Odd are in the Control Room arguing when Yumi climbs down the ladder. "We don't know what she will do if we send her. We don't even know if she's real!" Sanne yells at Odd.
"She is real!" Odd yells at Sanne. "She's S.S. and without the others we need her on Lyoko!"
"What happened?" Odd and Sanne turn to Yumi.
"Xana got Aelita and the others so…" They point at each other.
"He wants to send S.S. to Lyoko."
"She doesn't want to send S.S. to Lyoko."
"She could be a trick by Sissi!"
"Why would she trick us?!"
"She could still be working for Xana and is trying to trick us all!"
"She brought S.S. back without turning me into a pet like Ulrich! I'd trust her with my life!"
"Stop it!" S.S. yells shutting both Sanne and Odd up. She points at Sanne. "I'm going to Lyoko and," She points at Odd. "I don't need you to defend me!"
"If, wait, Aelita was taken? How are we going to deactivate the Tower?"
"I'm going but first I need to find out where the Tower is."
"Uh, what about the Super Scan?" Yumi thought the three geniuses would have fixed it by now.
"No, it is still damaged. I want you to go to Lyoko and find what Sector it is in then I'll send the other two."
"No you can send us all and we'll look together. That Lynnette sounds really tough and would tear Yumi apart." Odd hadn't been to Lyoko for a long time. He hadn't fought with Lynnette or even knew about Kiko.
"Fine but if she turns on you I'm not bringing you back I will let her hurt you until you are sent back."
"She won't turn on us because she loves us." Odd hears a sniff and turns to see S.S. is crying. "S.S., what's wrong?"
"How could you? You let me stay in your house, eat with you, then accuse me of, of not being real. How can you say I'm not real? I am real!" S.S. keeps crying and Sanne starts to feel bad.
"S.S., Xana, he erased you. It's hard to imagine that not only did Sissi find a way to bring you back but would do it without wanting anything from us."
"She did get something from us, our trust." Odd takes S.S.'s hand with his and leads her over to the elevator. "Come on Yumi we need to find the Tower." Yumi gets on the elevator and takes it down to the Scanner Room. They get in the Scanners and wait.
"Transfer Odd, Transfer Yumi, Transfer Sandra, Scanner Odd, Scanner Yumi, Scanner Sandra, Virtualization." They land on Lyoko as the vehicles appear.
"Wow, the Overboard, boy have I missed you." Odd gets on the Overboard and S.S. walks over to him. "Um S.S. take the Overwing for now. When Sanne comes you can join me."
"Ok Odd." S.S. goes back to the Overwing and gets on it as Yumi gets on the Overbike.
"Not too many pulses here Sanne." They were in the Ice Sector. "Where's the Way Tower?"
"North of there. I'd use the Transporter but that to was damaged by Sissi." Sanne watches the three worried about S.S. She had opened her home to S.S. but that was to keep a constant eye on her. She was afraid that Sissi was tricking Odd and if she was tricking Odd then Odd might do something rash. S.S. had to be real or they would lose her and Odd. The three get to the Way Tower and take it to the next platform and find themselves in the Desert Sector.
"Whoa, pulsations. I think we found the right Sector Sanne."
"Ok, stay there and I'll be dropping on you in a minute." Sanne waits for the elevator to come up then takes it down and gets in a Scanner as the auto transfer activates and the doors close on her. Soon she lands on Lyoko and finds S.S. is with Odd on the Overboard leaving the Overwing for her. "We need to find the Tower."
"We know." Sanne gets on the Overwing and the group takes off looking for the Tower.
On Earth the Guardian stops more then three hundred kilometers away from the Factory. People on the ground had been calling the police, the media, and their friends telling them about a UFO. Ulrich and Sissi catch up a minute later and reform into their bodies. "Sissi what do we do?" Ulrich knew attacking the Guardian would do nothing.
"I don't know. I attacked it why don't you think of something?"
"Trying but a Guardian can't be destroyed except…" Ulrich gets an idea. "Sissi it obviously went after Aelita and Sanne since they can deactivate Towers. The other two were just in the way. If you turn into Aelita it should confuse the Guardian."
"Why don't you turn into her?"
"I, well, she's a girl and you are to. And I don't know if I have the power to do that." Ulrich was still a lot weaker then Sissi. The power she got from when she was hit by the energy taken from the US and the power she stole from Xana when he used Sissi as a Vessel made her stronger then ever.
"Fine." Sissi closes her eyes and imagines being Aelita. She feels the energy move inside of her then feels her bones, her muscles, and everything else move. When she opens her eyes she finds she looks Aelita. "Hmmm, she needs to develop more if she wants to get a guy better then Jeremie." Sissi checks herself out when the Guardian reacts. It stretches out and starts to consume Sissi. "Aaa-" Sissi is cut off in mid sentence as she is pulled inside of the Guardian. She struggles then feels herself falling asleep. No, fight, don't lose to Xana! She concentrates and tries to create an energy field. The Guardian reacts violently and explodes.
"Sissi, no, Aelita." Ulrich flies down and catches both Aelita's. "Wake up you two and tell me which one of you is the real deal." Ulrich hears a thump noise when Jim and Samantha land on the ground. "They'll be ok." Ulrich floats down to the ground and sets both Aelita's down. Soon one sparks and turns into Sissi.
"Ouch." Sissi stands up. "What's going on with them?" She motions to the others.
"They're sleeping I guess. Want to help me carry them to the Factory?"
"This is going to take a lot of energy. We have to be careful Ulrich."
"You take Aelita I'll take Jim and Samantha since I haven't used a lot of energy today." Ulrich puts a hand on Jim and Samantha then turns them and himself into a black mist as Sissi does the same to Aelita. The fly to the Factory hoping they would be in time to help.
"This is it." On Lyoko Sanne had used her connection to Lyoko to pin point where the Tower was. They fly over a cliff and look down to see the activated Tower. "I have to be careful." Sanne would die if she lost her life points.
"This is no different then when we had to protect Aelita." Yumi gets her fans out.
"I never knew her then but we'll protect you Sanne." S.S. gets her power pole out. "This is weird. I have all these memories but the only ones that happened to me stopped…" S.S. stops. "I guess it's been awhile since you had me to help you."
"Help, I hope you can." Yumi had dealt with Lynnette before. "Lynnette is really strong if we aren't careful Sanne could be left alone on Lyoko with her."
"I got it don't worry." S.S. hangs on to Odd as they get to the Tower and find Lynnette waiting for them.
"More warriors then I expected. Two of you are new, Odd Della Robbia and Sandra Smith right?" Lynnette gets her mace out. "You won't last long against I the Knight of Lyoko!"
"We'll see monkey."
"I'm not a monkey cat boy!" Lynnette uses her powers to fly up in the air at Odd and S.S. on the Overboard.
"Speed Arrow!" Odd fires his arrows and Lynnette blocks the arrows with her mace.
"Extend!" S.S. sends her pole out and hits the hand holding the mace but it isn't enough to make Lynnette drop it.
"Hai!" Yumi throws her fans but they bounce off Lynnette's armor.
"Puny humans I will crush you then I will kill the woman." Lynnette swings her mace but Odd pulls the Overboard up to take the blow. Odd and S.S. go flying as the force of the blow destroys the Overboard.
"Exploding Arrow!" Odd fires these as he falls and Lynnette flies after him.
"Beautiful but not enough!" Lynnette swings her mace knocking back the explosions. "You lose!" She swings her mace and knocks an Exploding Arrow back at Odd! It hits him and he becomes disoriented then slams into the ground.
"Shield!" He raises his arm to block the mace but Lynnette's power is too much and she slams through the shield and Odd. Her mace hits so hard it creates a hole on the Desert Sector. Lynnette pulls her mace back then gets hit by S.S. S.S. had propped the power pole against a rock then extended it to give herself a more powerful kick.
"Retract." S.S. retracts her pole then swings it at Lynnette. The two fight swinging the weapons in their hands. S.S. moves so fast Yumi has a hard time keeping up with it. As the two fight Yumi flies over to Sanne.
"Sanne I, maybe you're right. She's moving faster then she did before."
"Yes, but she's fighting for us." Sanne sees evidence of this not being the real S.S. and wonders if it was safe to keep her at the Hermitage. There was a holiday break coming up soon and Aelita would be staying in her room for the first time in years. S.S. would be moving to a cot but she would still be in the house.
"You move much to fast to be human!" Lynnette was struggling against S.S.
"I don't know how I'm doing this but damn I'm good." S.S. was seeing things moving slower then normal. S.S. felt lighter and felt a charge moving through her as she fought Lynnette. As she does this a strange image appears in her head. It shows the moment when Sissi touched her and implanted the memories into her. The memory stops when Lynnette is able to get past S.S.'s guard and hits her with the mace. "Retract!" S.S. uses the pole to push herself away from Lynnette before Lynnette hit her again.
"Running like the scum human that you are."
"No, need a break." The blow from the mace hurt S.S. "You're good for a monkey."
"I'm not a monkey! I am Lynnette, a proud Gorilla Warrior for Master Xana!" Lynnette lunges at S.S. and uses her powers to fly over the distance in an instance and strikes S.S. before she can block the attack. "One left before I get to kill Sanne Hopper." Lynnette looks over at Yumi. "Prepare to die."
On Earth Ulrich and Sissi arrive with the three missing warriors in the Scanner Room and find both Odd and S.S. "What happened?"
"Sanne, she only has Yumi left to protect her." Odd is nursing his wounds. The Mace apparently did more then leave scars but seems to have broken his bones even after he came back to Earth.
"Sanne went to Lyoko? She'll die if she loses her life points!" Ulrich sets Jim down. "They won't do us any good. Sissi we have to stop Lynnette from killing Sanne."
"I'll bring Aelita. If Lynnette doesn't know she's there then she can sneak in." Ulrich and Sissi with Aelita break into a black mist and enter the Super Computer.
"Goodbye Yumi Ishiyama." Lynnette destroys Yumi. "Sanne, I will have fun killing you. Master Xana will give me a bonus I suspect." Lynnette walks over to Sanne ready to deal the death blow when two blurs appear then stop in front of Sanne.
"Back off Lynnette!" Sissi and Ulrich have their weapons out ready to fight.
"The traitors? You have joined the Lyoko Warriors?"
"No they aren't trustworthy." Sanne makes it clear Ulrich and Sissi are not part of the Lyoko Warriors.
"Hmpf, I'll kill you traitors." Lynnette and the two former Lyoko Warriors fight. Sanne tries to take the Overwing to the Tower but a bolt of energy strikes the Overwing and Sanne falls to the ground. "Not so fast once I kill the traitors I'll kill you."
"You lose monkey." Ulrich blocks the mace with one sword then shoves the other into Lynnette's stomach.
"It will take more then that to kill me."
"I know I use to be like you, still am. But the pink haired one has made it to the Tower." Ulrich smiles as he pulls his sword out and Lynnette turns around to see Aelita entering the Tower.
"No!" Lynnette uses her powers to get to the Tower in the blink of an eye. "I can't enter!" Lynnette pounds on the Tower with her mace as it deactivates. "Wait, I can still kill Sanne Hopper." Lynnette turns around and sees Sanne materialize back to Earth. "No! Master Xana I have failed you. It is my fault and I accept any punishment you give me. I should be better then this I am not some dirty human." Xana uses his powers to bring Lynnette to Sector 5 from where she stood.
"You accept it was your fault. That is why I chose you over Kiko. Do better next time."
"Thank you for your kindness Master Xana." Lynnette bows to him then stands.
Back on Earth everyone is in at the Hermitage except Odd and S.S. The others were going their own way when Sanne made the calls for a meeting. "She moved faster then any of you. She moved like Ulrich and Sissi do."
"So S.S. is possessed?" Jim doesn't understand what Sanne and Yumi are talking about.
"I don't know. She seems normal, she acts normal, but on Lyoko she was anything but normal." Yumi was amazed at how fast S.S. moved. She extended and retracted the power pole to give her range in the fight and blocked the mace easily.
"Should we have her here? I, I trust her but maybe I shouldn't." Samantha doesn't want to say kick S.S. out for two reasons. She was a friend and she knew her feeling for Odd were making it hard to like S.S.
"No, for now she stays. She hasn't done anything yet so she stays. If she is different then the original S.S. I think it would be because of Sissi and Ulrich who seem to hate Xana as much as we do. If anything they will use S.S. to get Odd to join them."
"But, Sissi said, if that's what they wanted Odd would have joined her by now." Aelita knew Odd would have given anything to get S.S. back. Joining Sissi wouldn't have stopped him.
"Then I don't know." As the group continues to talk there are two spies.
"Sissi you should tell them what you did."
"No, I want to show them more. I gave S.S. a little bit of energy and she was able to hold her own against Lynnette. If they realize what joining me will mean on their own it will be better."
"Sissi, why don't we just…" Ulrich is hit with the shock collar.
"Sorry Ulrich but they wouldn't join me willingly. I gave them the gift of S.S. and they still don't trust us. This alliance will be unsteady until they learn to trust us." Sissi and Ulrich break apart into black mists and leave for Kadic Academy.